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If your headed to the Coachella Music Festival next weekend don’t miss your dose of art and music appreciation and make sure you capture your selfie moments in the Indio Sunset and star-filled desert evenings. Check out these social media-ready installations and selfie opportunities..

Each year, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival commissions a number of original, large-scale, site-specific art installations to be displayed throughout the festival and campgrounds. The Golden Voice promoters search far and wide to include established and up-and-coming artists, and consider the works an essential element of the Coachella experience that distinguishes each year. This is art as landmark, public space and icon—to be viewed from an infinite variety of perspectives by an ever-shifting audience.

LODESTAR

by Randy Polumbo

Lodestar is an exuberant floral composition made from a Lockheed Martin Lodestar jet that artist Randy Polumbo scavenged from the Internet. “What frankly was a weapon, today is a provocative canvas upon which viewers can explore their curiosity,” he says. “I am excited about ideas like pollination and propagation and, of course, transformation.” Lodestar aims to inspire, challenge, and perhaps stimulate or activate with its monumental scale, symbolic payload and visual journey of spying from afar and approaching this explosively beautiful and engaging blossom.

The sculpture sits on 10,000-pound legs and a weighted nose that makes a 35-foot triangle. Its tail soars almost 50 feet high, topped with a “saucer,” or pod, conjuring everything from UFOs to roll bars on a hot rod—connecting the extraterrestrial to the extreme terrestrial. The top functions as an observation tower, with a galaxy of revolving planets covered with crystals and hand-silvered mirror, and languorous petals unfolding from the tail. Blooming on the saucer are hand-blown glass flowers that softly illuminate the sculpture at night.

Artist, designer, and master builder Randy Polumbo creates larger-than-life sculptures from found, recycled and repurposed objects, as well as glass and polished metal. He is interested in metamorphosis, propagation, pollination and retooling of systems.

SPECTRA

by NEWSUBSTANCE

NEWSUBSTANCE has created an art installation you enter to experience: a seven-story spectrum of color with an observation deck offering 360-degree views of Coachella and beyond. From the outside, Spectrum appears as an impressive architectural entity. Inside, it’s less about itself and more about your experience: Light, color, and perspective change with every step you take.

“As people venture into our pavilion, they will find peace and serenity,” says creative director Patrick O’Mahony. “It takes down the sound of the festival a few notches and provides a space for reflection.”

Spectrum explores the relationship between light and landscape, the shifting environment it creates, and how it influences those who journey through it. It also captures the beautiful explosions of color as the iconic sunrises and sunsets roll across the landscape. At night, the installation features 31 custom cast colored panels and more than 6,000 feet of LEDs, which illuminate the site and bathe you in color.

NEWSUBSTANCE are creative disruptors who blend cutting-edge technology and analog design to stunning effect, fabricating installations for major events and site-specific works with a longer public life.

SUPERNOVA

by Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquardt (R&R Studios)

SUPERNOVA is an explosion of light and color that exudes optimism and hope. With origins in the sky, this radiant, polychromatic star contains 12 individual stars, jutting 40 feet in every direction. “It’s extraordinary and fantastic, but a familiar form,” says Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. “It’s a mirage we can touch.”

The artists are interested in public pleasure: By day, SUPERNOVA offers shade and a meeting place—a fantastic, utopian and contemporary American green at Coachella. At night, it transforms into a shining star that changes colors and seduces its viewers. SUPERNOVA is a fantasy that becomes real, a symbol for all that’s possible and a personal memory of your experience at Coachella.

Two years after their iconic Bésame Mucho installation at Coachella, R&R Studios returns to the festival, creating “imaginary solutions” for a better world. Their work weaves together visual arts, architecture, design and place, proposing encounters of stories and spaces that alternate between the political and the poetical, the quotidian and the fantastic, the real and the utopian. Artists and architects Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt have known each other since their childhood in Argentina, and both teach at the University of Miami School of Architecture. They founded R&R Studios to create spaces for public endeavor and pleasure, where there is empathy, optimism, and togetherness.

ETHEREA

by Edoardo Tresoldi

Edoardo Tresoldi has installed three wire-mesh sculptures whose translucency weaves onto the festival grounds something that isn’t really there: neoclassical-and Baroque-inspired architecture of identical shapes ranging in scale from three to five to seven stories tall, or 36, 54 and 72 feet, respectively. The “structures” breathe through the clouds and the wind, transferring the cosmic archetype of the sky into ephemeral domes through the language of classic architecture. The broken rhythms of the wire mesh generate sequences of architectural abstractions and amplified points of view. The optical effect changes with the light and atmospheric conditions as well as the perspective of the viewer. Etherea offers a dreamlike experience, a portal for contemplation, and an encounter between human and sky, which grows and shrinks as you move between the structures.

Named by Forbes as one of the 30 most influential European artists under 30, Edoardo Tresoldi is known for his monumental wire mesh sculptures that function as public interventions, transcending time and space and instigating a dialogue between art and the world. The Italian artist’s translucent, ghostly works take the shape of classic architecture and larger-than-life figures hovering over spaces from Paris to Abu Dhabi to Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

PALM-3 WORLD STATION

by Simón Vega

Simón Vega’s Third World space station is the largest sculpture in his Tropical Space Proyectos series commenting on the effects of the Cold War in Central America through his ironic and humorous views on the Space Race. Palm-3 World Station represents his interest in catastrophe-escaping space vehicles as well as his concern about who will be left behind. The sculpture, based on the Soviet space station Mir, is 150 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 50 feet tall. It has 30 modules containing all the trappings of shanty towns in his native El Salvador: mini marts, pupuserias, apartments with TVs left on, clothing lines, flickering lights, hissing gas lines, sirens, and people in “happy poverty.” These materials and motifs draw a sharp contrast to the technology of space and punctuate the economic inequality and effects of a polarized society.

Obsessed with history, politics and popular culture, Simón Vega of El Salvador creates a playful fusion between the first and third worlds. His sculpture often parodies Cold War spaceships and capsules, Mayan pyramids, modern buildings and contemporary surveillance systems.

DISPLAY THIS OASIS

by Katie Stout

Named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30: Art & Style list in 2017, Katie Stout makes colorful and often-humorous objects such as furniture, lamps and rugs in a style she calls “naïve pop.” Embracing imperfection and absurdity, the New York-based artist and designer’s strange and kitschy works have a bright charm and a refreshing feel of the handmade. “I don’t think there’s any reason that the things we are familiar with have to look or function in a certain way,” the Rhode Island School of Design and Art graduate says. “I imbue objects with their own character and let them be what they are.” Her objects suppress the norm and exude a spirit that welcomes viewers to consider the so-called deranged and demented in their everyday lives.

Katie Stout’s first foray into digital sculpture was created in collaboration with Simaxiom, a digital art studio that specializes in architectural and product visualizations.

To see more of Simaxiom’s work, visit their website at https://www.simaxiom.com/

Katie Stout makes you think differently about common objects, always casting them with a colorful, funky twist. For Coachella, she imagined a four-story-tall fountain but knew it was out of sync with desert water conservation. So she created it in augmented reality (AR)—a garden-like space where “water” falls from one of many floating, biomorphic forms.

META & DITTO

by Adam Ferriss

Adam Ferriss has created two augmented-reality experiences accessible through the Coachella Camera feature in the Coachella mobile app. By tapping the screen, Meta makes a sun-kissed, Polaroid-esque frame appear and float in space. Move your device around and see the framed view from different angles. You can capture your favorite images, leave a postcard in space and share on social media.

Ditto works more like a drawing tool: Hold your finger on the screen and move or wave the phone through space to leave a ribbon trailing in the wake.

Adam Ferriss is known for creating spectacular moving digital art by manipulating source images, computer code and algorithms to psychedelic effect. The Los Angeles-based artist uses a variety of programming languages and, more recently, augmented reality to create trippy, hypnotic visuals, often in real-time and employing the feedback loop as a digital agent of change.

BALLOON CHAIN

by Robert Bose

Lines of helium filled balloons roam the grounds during the day and light up the sky at night.

RAICES CULTURA

Raices Cultura is a non profit that was founded by an energetic and dynamic young group of community leaders in 2004. Our mission is to create spaces for artistic and cultural expression, promote healthy communities, and strengthen the voice of the Eastern Coachella Valley.

RAM

by Don Kennel

Big Bear has moved to a new home and for 2018 we welcome RAM. This landmark of the camping experience serves as a beacon to all.